Achievements & Results
Debating Win
On Sunday 31 May 2020, students Tia Goveas, Blessing Omosebi and Tanya Sinha participating in the Monash Asian Studies debating series which was conducted online. The competition was fierce and it was a close debate against Melbourne Grammar School. In the end, SCHS took out the win! Blessing was also judged as best speaker for the evening too. Congratulations to the team!
Paul Byrne
Student Engagement & Sport
The first 6 weeks of term 2 were a little different from normal with everyone working and learning from home. While we have not been able to have interschool sport, the intraschool house competition has been great with high participation levels.
The first house competition was trivia! Each year level had an allocated day and time where they got on zoom and were split into their houses to answer questions. Students were really enthusiastic about the trivia with around 80 students participating from each year level.
Up next, we had a MasterChef challenge where students were given 4 ingredients and asked to create their best dish having their chosen fruit as the hero. The winning creation was from Kaitlyn Huynh in Blackwood with ‘Hazelnut Dream’.
With TikTok being the newest craze, we decided to run a house challenge having students copy their favourite dances and make it into one video per house. The dances were fantastic, some houses even had teachers get involved! The winning house was Cottrell followed by Blackwood, Rothwell and Kororoit.
Our final competition during remote learning was the Covid-19 Superhero posters. Students were asked to create a poster, meme or cartoon of a superhero that could fight Covid-19 by displaying Suzanne Cory values and superhero traits. First, second and third place all went to students from Blackwood!
With VCE students being back at school the lunch time house competition is now running four lunch times a week. Students are currently playing soccer are getting quite a crowd.
The school’s strength and conditioning center has also been open before and after school for eager students to use.
Jacqui McClurg and Claire Breed
ASX Schools Sharemarket Game
The ASX Sharemarket Game concluded this term. Students had a hypothetical portfolio of
$50,000 which they could invest on the Australian sharemarket over a 12 week period. The game is linked to live data on the sharemarket, so real life fluctuations in share prices are reflected in the game. Given that the game commenced in mid March, students experienced the full brunt of the COVID effects on share prices. At the beginning of the game, share prices took a major hit and most students were forced to re-evaluate their investment strategies (all of a sudden Virgin, Flight Centre and Webjet weren’t such a great investment)!
Two Suzanne Cory students were able to generate significant profits over the course of the game and managed to increase their portfolios to well over $100,000. Congratulations to Jaz Toor and Jemima Browne who both finished inside the top 100 performers nationwide from a field of over 17,000 students. Keep an eye on these two with their savvy stock market tips...anyone capable of 100% return over a 12 week period during such volatile financial times is doing pretty well!
The ASX Schools Sharemarket Game returns in August.
Mr Bourke
Young Adas Awards - Williamstown Literary Festival
Congratulations to the following students who were shortlisted for the Young Adas Short Story Award:
Keya Akolkar, year 11: Injustice in Justice
Dinithi Balasooriya, year 11: The Bottuva: The Boat
Nadim Kibria, year 10: Nomad’s Melancholy
Charlize Miranda, year 9: The Blue Mark
Each of the four students who were shortlisted will be published in the anthology for the award, and will receive a copy of this soon. At the award presentation on Sunday 21 June, Nadim Kibria’s story was selected as ‘Commended’ and Charlize’s as ‘Highly Commended’. Well done to all.
Ms Bradwell